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Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, whose history, influence and wealth have made it one of the most prestigious universities in the world.[6][7][8][9][10] The University is organized into eleven separate academic units—ten faculties and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study—with campuses throughout the Boston metropolitan area:[15] its 209-acre (85 ha) main campus is centered on Harvard Yard in Cambridge, approximately 3 miles (5 km) northwest of Boston; the business school and athletics facilities, including Harvard Stadium, are located across the Charles River in the Allston neighborhood of Boston and the medical, dental, and public health schools are in the Longwood Medical Area.[5] Eight U.S. presidents have been graduates, and some 150 Nobel Laureates have been affiliated as students, faculty, or staff. History Colonial The leading Boston divine Increase Mather served as president from 1685 to 1701. 19th century Charles W.
The billionaire factory: Why Stanford University produces so many celebrated web entrepreneurs - News - Student
That whopping investment round, announced late last month, was described by Clinkle’s PR reps as “the largest seed funding in Silicon Valley history”. Even Mark Zuckerberg could only raise $500,000 in start-up money for Facebook. But then, Zuckerberg went to Harvard. Stanford has educated just one US President (Herbert Hoover, since you ask) to Harvard’s eight, but its leafy campus in the heart of Silicon Valley has probably produced more celebrated technology entrepreneurs than every other US college combined. Its recent graduates include the founders of the photo app Instagram, who sold their creation to Facebook for $1bn in April last year; and the team behind Snapchat, whose 18-month-old brainchild has been valued at $800m. William Hewlett and David Packard, founders of what is now the world’s leading PC manufacturer, met as Stanford undergraduates in the 1930s. Duplan was among Eesley’s students two years ago. The Clinkle concept had occurred to Duplan on a visit to London. Clinkle
Brains in Silicon
Welcome to Brains in Silicon. Learn about the lab, get to know the brains that work here, and find out about new projects that you could join. We have crafted two complementary objectives: To use existing knowledge of brain function in designing an affordable supercomputer—one that can itself serve as a tool to investigate brain function—feeding back and contributing to a fundamental, biological understanding of how the brain works. We model brains using an approach far more efficient than software simulation: We emulate the flow of ions directly with the flow of electrons—don't worry, on the outside it looks just like software. Welcome and enjoy your time here!
QS World University Rankings
The QS World University Rankings are annual university rankings published by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) which provides overall rankings as well as rankings for individual subjects. QS also publishes additional regional rankings, the QS Asian University Rankings, the QS Latin American University Rankings, and the QS BRICS University Rankings, all of which are independent of and different to the major world rankings due to differences in the criteria and weightings used to generate them.[1] The publisher originally released its rankings in publication with Times Higher Education from 2004 to 2009 as the Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings, but the two ended their collaboration in 2010. QS assumed sole publication of the pre-existing methodology, while Times Higher Education created a new one with Thomson Reuters, published as Times Higher Education World University Rankings. History[edit] Between 2004 and 2009, QS produced the rankings in partnership with THE. Fees[edit]
Stanford and Its Start-ups: With StartX, Has the University Gone Too Far?
Stanford University is a wealthy school. Its seventeen-billion-dollar endowment exceeds the G.D.P. of Jamaica. But the university, which is constantly under construction, is surrounded by even greater wealth: Facebook is to the north, Apple to the south, Google to the east, Sand Hill Road to the west. Stanford is like a man sailing a beautiful new boat who looks around and sees his friends in yachts. Stanford’s board of trustees began, in the mid-aughts, to gaze at the masts around the Bay, according to Randy Livingston, the university’s chief financial officer. Last week, partly as a result of those inquiries, Stanford announced that, in partnership with its hospital, the university will begin investing in companies founded by its own students. Stanford has always played the role of Silicon Valley’s queen mother—and, sometimes, its handmaiden. But Stanford’s partnership with Silicon Valley has also raised ethical issues. StartX seems less problematic.
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Academic Ranking of World Universities
The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), also known as the Shanghai Ranking, is a publication that was founded and compiled by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University to rank universities globally.[1] The rankings have been conducted since 2003 and updated annually. Since 2009, the rankings have been published by the Shanghai Ranking Consultancy.[2] ARWU was the first global ranking of universities published.[3] The ranking, backed by the Chinese government, was designed "to provide a global benchmark" against the various universities in China so they "could assess their progress."[4] The aim of the ARWU is for Chinese universities to "catch up" on "hard scientific research".[4] Methodology[edit] The methodology used by the Shanghai Rankings is entirely academic and research oriented. Influence[edit] As the first multi-indicator ranking of global universities, ARWU has attracted a great deal of attention from universities, governments and media. Criticism[edit] Rankings[edit]
